Love Major League. And yes. A blanket statement. As an Iowa fan you almost have to. We never play consistent, so we never know.
I'm calling it now...Hawks in the NIT (again).
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Love Major League. And yes. A blanket statement. As an Iowa fan you almost have to. We never play consistent, so we never know.
tweeterhawk
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Don't sell yourself short. You're really good at making up things and then pretending other people said them.
Does anybody else see how stupid this statement is?
So you are saying if Iowa goes 1-2 in the final 3 games of the regular season they will have to win the B1G tourney in order to get an invite to the NCAA tournament? Yeah, ok.
NEIChawk
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WindsorHawk
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NIT? - LOL
kicker22
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Lets just stop all the talk that the Iowa's punched their season to the NIT with this losing skid. We're sliding and on a 3 game losing streak, but lets not act like we're NIT bound. We've got just as good a chance at righting the ship and getting back in the win column with a solid finish to the season.
Rather than the crazy talk of tanking the rest of the way and going to the NIT I think we should all focus on the fact that regardless of whether its the B1G Ten tourny, March Madness, or wost case scneario the NIT; something needs to change to have a shot at winning any of them.
I've always had a mentality that theres essentially 3 parts to every season; preseason, conference play, and post season. To be successful you have to gradually get better at each point and elevate your performance so that you peak at the right time. That said we've still got a few games to right the ship and get back on track to have a success in the post season. We're running out of rehearsals and opportunity to get the flaws ironed out, but lets not all jump ship at once.
Rather than the crazy talk of tanking the rest of the way and going to the NIT I think we should all focus on the fact that regardless of whether its the B1G Ten tourny, March Madness, or wost case scneario the NIT; something needs to change to have a shot at winning any of them.
I've always had a mentality that theres essentially 3 parts to every season; preseason, conference play, and post season. To be successful you have to gradually get better at each point and elevate your performance so that you peak at the right time. That said we've still got a few games to right the ship and get back on track to have a success in the post season. We're running out of rehearsals and opportunity to get the flaws ironed out, but lets not all jump ship at once.
I wonder if the meltdown over on CF would be this bad after losses to K-State, Baylor, and Okie State.
Bigtenchamp
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Our RPI is that great.
We need a couple more wins if we want to be a lock.
We need a couple more wins if we want to be a lock.
kicker22
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IMO I think this type of meltdown would be expected from any team/fanbase that has recently experienced success and found themselves riding a 3 game losing streak. I think your always going to have the doom and gloom fanbase and those that never think things are as bad as could be. All I know is that there's still time for the coaches and players to step up and address what needs to be addressed to get this team back to winning games.
clicheusername3
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Probably not because if you are Wing and Ling before the season you could go either way with those games. I'm not sure about everyone else but even before conference play started I would have pencilled in MN and Indiana as W's even being on the road.
ssckelley
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Really? I had both as losses and I was at 10-8 which still remains a possibility. Penn State and Northwestern were the only 2 road games I was thinking Iowa would win. I had the wrong split for Ohio State, thought we would beat them at home while losing to them on the road.
clicheusername3
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Take out the record you thought you needed to be at and just looking at the situation and the numbers and the eye test then how would feel about it? Would you say, "We should win those games?".
ssckelley
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Going into this week I did not think Iowa would lose both @ Indiana and @ Minnesota, so yeah in that sense you are right. I would not have pictured Iowa giving up 188 points in those games either along with holding Yogi down to 8 points and losing.
I admit I bought into the idea that Iowa was something special this year even though in my heart of hearts I have never believed this team was a Final Four team. But I did expect this team to be in the NCAA tournament and I do expect Fran and this team to right this ship and get the job done. Not all is lost, a 6 seed in the NCAA is not all that bad and is still a decent position to make a run.
WOW, I heard this joke back in the FALL OF 1978 when BOB COMMINGS was our football coach.
clicheusername3
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I definitely agree and I'm not on the "we're not making the tourney" bandwagon or anything like that. The problem is that OSU and MSU are way down this year (by their standards) and the middle of the pack is super soft compared to the previous few years. What I don't like are the "look at where we are from the Lick years" and "the goal was just to get to the tournament this year" lines of thinking. Any successful business, organization, or teams' goal is always to exceed to the goals, not just scrape by to meet the goals.
